[T3] Flooding almost immediately after start.

Marklist marklist at healeyopolis.com
Tue Dec 21 17:26:29 PST 2010


On 12/21/2010 04:24 PM, Mike Fisher wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Marklist<marklist at healeyopolis.com>  wrote:
>> I don't know if this has anything to do with it but it was raining heavily.
>>   I'm driving down the road, car starts running crapily.  I reach my
>> destination buy something get back in and the car runs fine, for a block my
>> next destination.  I do some more shopping and when I try to start it it
>> fires and runs crapily again before it quits with the engine flooded.  The
>> rain had stopped so I stopped a passerby and had her turn it over while I
>> checked the spark from the coil.  It is OK.  It then started raining again
>> so I called a tow truck.  Fortunately I was only 6 blocks from home.
>>
>> What should I check when the sun comes out again.
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> Points closed up.
I can see how that might be the case, but I did them about two weeks ago.

BTW I'm going to look for a torx head screw to replace the one that 
holds them in place.  What size is it?



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